Founding the Year
Subtitle: Ovid's Fasti And the Poetics of the Roman Calendar (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: July 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9789004151307
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature and society; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Latin; Ancient Rome; Rome; Ancient and Classical; Fasts and feasts in literature; Didactic poetry, Latin
Description: "This book considers the relationship between the Fasti, Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and commemorations it organizes and in its graphic representation. The Fasti treats the calendar, recently revised by Caesar and Augustus, as its most important cultural model and as a quasi-literary 'intertext': the poem simultaneously reshapes and is itself shaped by the calendar. The study includes chapters on Book 4 and the rites of April, on the addition of Julio-Claudian holidays to the calendar, and on the final two books of the poem as shaped by the renaming of the months Quintilis and Sextilis for Julius Caesar and Augustus."--BOOK JACKET.